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2009 reads

‘Tis the time for year-enders eh? Members of Livejournal group bookish here lists their worst reads of the year.

I’ll just list the books I enjoyed this year. For individual reviews of some of these books, just click on “books” and/or “reading” in ze tag bubble.

Boy do I read a lot.

  1. Rosemary’s Baby
  2. A Game of Thrones
  3. The Haunting of Hill House
  4. The Blind Assassin
  5. Transmetropolitan
  6. The Swamp Thing Vol. 1
  7. Year’s Best SF 14
  8. Solaris Book of New SF
  9. Trese 1-3
  10. Boogers Are My Beat
  11. Sleepaway, an anthology of writings on summer camp edited by Eric Simonoff
  12. Big If
  13. The Green Mile
  14. Revolutionary Road
  15. Mrs. Dalloway
  16. A Clockwork Orange
  17. Lunar Park
  18. Blindness
  19. Then We Came to the End
  20. Heart-Shaped Box
  21. The Year of Magical Thinking
  22. Nouveau Bored (poetry)
  23. You Are Here (poetry)
  24. Libot ng Durungawan (poetry)
  25. Kundi Akala (poetry)
  26. The Highest Hiding Place (poetry)

I’m still reading The Beauty Myth and Ender’s Game, but I’m pretty sure they’ll be first on my 2010 list. :)

Happy New Year, all. ♥

desk job

Since I just came back from a vacation of sorts, I arrived at the condo faced with a mountain of chores. Egadz. First up was “clean the desk”, but later on I realized that I actually liked the way my desk looked. You know, dirty and cluttered? ;)

Yes, that’s my photo in that giraffe frame from Kate. (Thank you!) Ah, narcissism. (E wala nang ibang magkasya na peechur, soreh naman. :) ) Also, spot my UP ID, hee.

No, I did not paint my walls purple, the former occupant did. And oh yes, those are my collages up on the wall. How sweet of you to ask. (Chenelyn.)

Continue reading desk job

christmas 2009

Home. Food. Crazy siblings. Mass at 10 pm. Fireworks display just before midnight. DVDs. Sleep. Books. Learned poker. Played poker with crazy siblings. Met Tiptoe the Rat and my sister’s coin collection. (Apparently she has a coin collection.) (And a toy rat.) Painted my nails purple. One finished story. Avatar with Jaykie. Sour cream popcorn for the first time. More DVDs. More food. “Tuna with cheese!” More sleep. Have I mentioned sleep? LOL.

Merry Christmas, y’all. Hope you had a good one. :)

Photos.

party in photos

Editorial party last night. My throat hurts and my head aches and I think I may have eaten too much Inasal chicken. Just look at the pictures will you?

(PS Charice Pempengco was there, y’all. Like, yeah.)

ruin/resolve

From Rocket Kapre:

Last October, I sent out a limited call for submissions for Ruin and Resolve, an ebook anthology which Rocket Kapre would put up for sale, donating any profits received to the Philippine National Red Cross.  Seventeen heeded that call, and in the span of less than three months, we’ve managed to compile nineteen stories and five poems, to offer as an incentive for those who want to share their blessings, especially during the Christmas season. On December 28 (fingers crossed) the anthology will go on sale at Smashwords.com, and I’ll need everyone’s help to get the word out.

December 28, you guys. It’s for a good cause! :D

Here’s the TOC:

RUIN AND RESOLVE

Mouse and I – Rochita Loenen-Ruiz

Strange Salvation – Celestine Trinidad

Earthquake – Kate Aton-Osias

Designations – Partia Rivera

Firestorm – Erica Gonzales

Excerpt from Neomuros – Paolo J. Cruz

After the Flood – Nikki Alfar

Stairway to heaven – Patria Rivera

Wishgranters – Rod M. Santos

The Sparrows of Climaco Avenue – Kenneth Yu

Dreams after the Storm – Eliza Victoria

We End Up with the Same Thing Anyway – Crystal Koo

Before the Perfect Season – Catherine Batac Walder

Wail of the Sun – Vincent Michael Simbulan

Haya and Me – Erica Gonzales

Snippets – Kate Aton-Osias

The way a plague transforms the land – Patria Rivera

The Marriage of Sun and Moon – Sharmaine Galve

The Death and Rebirth of Nathaniel Alan Sempio – Alexander Marcos Osias

Cutis Marmorata – Celestine Trinidad

The Return of the Sun – Rochita Loenen-Ruiz

Strangelove – by chiles samaniego

Excerpt from News of the Shaman – Karl R. De Mesa

the lantern parade, and other shenanigans

Yes I was able to attend SUCK IIIIITTTT.

But we got bored and left our spot in front of PHAN halfway through the parade, so we missed the really nifty floats. Boo, us.

But oh look Plants vs. Zombies!

The College of Law wants you to know something about the Ampatuan massacre:

A tarp from Mass Comm *nostalgia for ze college* :


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The HGC (Jaykie and Wabe’s Juabe’s org – can’t remember what the letters stand for, sorry! Hobby Gamers’ Circle) Christmas party was fun. I helped out in my own teeny-tiny way by chopping up Mark’s strawberries. And yes, I mean exactly what I just said.

Toward midnight everybody started singing songs from Dr. Horrible and Avenue Q. IZWIN. :D

Photobomber of the Week (LOL):

Jme took this picture with her pretty pretty pink camera (to match her pretty pretty pink shoes /end kikay). Thanks Jme!

Yihee. Chenes.

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Random share: While waiting for his other orgmates to arrive, Jaykie played Magic with Jeff, while at the other end of the table I played –

– Lady Gaga.

Such is life.

More photos!